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Post by knoffles on Aug 3, 2017 5:43:43 GMT
This will be a thread for my wood elves. I'll start with a few that have already been posted on the forum and add others as I photo/paint them. Merilel of the Moon, Highweaver.
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Post by knoffles on Aug 3, 2017 5:44:35 GMT
Shadestalker
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Post by knoffles on Aug 3, 2017 5:46:06 GMT
Skarlocks wood elf archers (3rd ed. lead) - painted in the 90's by a much younger me. Dryads (4th ed. 'white' metal)
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Post by knoffles on Aug 3, 2017 6:43:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 18:07:01 GMT
Looking good! Nice to see some colors other than greens and browns on the woodies!
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Post by knoffles on Aug 4, 2017 21:12:55 GMT
I need to seriously break my love of 'warlock purple' (what I now think is called screamer pink). I use it wsaaay too much.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 21:21:33 GMT
Lol. I've been eyeing that Reaper Triad purple bundle for my dark elves. Purple is just a color I never think or have tried to use. If I overuse any color it's brown. I use brown a LOT, as evidenced by my Vallejo collection; almost HALF my Vallejo paints are some shade of brown!
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Post by mottdon on Aug 4, 2017 22:01:53 GMT
Lol, I can't say that I've ever used that much "Pink" very much, but on a few occasions (in particular my recent Unicorn) it has come out really nice!
I tend to love forces that have blue as their main color and a contrasting white or yellow as the secondary color. I kind of "overloaded" on Blue and White in my Empire Middenhiem army and then again in my HE army though and every army after that, I never returned to it, even though it's my favorite! My O&G were mostly Green (of course) and blacks and browns. My Dwarfs came next and I wanted a hardy, earthy red tone with leather brown and cold metals. I went for the standard Greens and Browns in a Springtime theme for my Wood Elves. TK have a lot of dry bone colors. My Dark Elves are more Purple, Teal and Black. My Lizardmen were a bit of a refreshing breath for me though. In them I was getting back to the bright colors that I love to see on the table top. And they weren't necessarily locked down to one standard color scheme! That's one major reason I love to play them now.
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Post by knoffles on Aug 6, 2017 12:46:09 GMT
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Post by knoffles on Aug 6, 2017 12:54:15 GMT
Wardancers Originals models with white undercoat and army colours (though no warpaint done yet) + the champion from Scarlocks archers (sporting the 90's paint job) Newer models, trying out a black undercoat, different skin tone and more muted colours (not sure I actually like them as much, and excuse the botched eyes on one, got the wife to actually do the others as she has a much steadier hand).
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Post by mottdon on Aug 7, 2017 13:34:28 GMT
Honestly, I like the newer models's skin tone much better. The muted colors scheme is a matter of personal preference, but I have to admit, I found my eye to be "exploring" the new models much more, looking at all the details of the model. Great job on the tattoos as well! That's surprisingly difficult to manage so that the model doesn't look like it has some disease covering it's body! Yours look like they have earned their tattoos for each victory in combat or something. (That's actually pretty good fluff! I might actually use that once I finish my Wardancers and get to the tattoos!)
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Post by strutsagget on Aug 7, 2017 14:16:23 GMT
Me too, I like the newer color better but totally understand if you like them all to have same color Great work!
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Post by knoffles on Aug 7, 2017 17:02:13 GMT
Hands up to admit I didn't do the tattoos either. I should have mentioned that in the post. Someone (the keeper of the chains) has way too much of an interest in braveheart. She is also much more talented in the arts and crafts side than I am but has little to no interest in painting all my toys. Shame.
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Post by mottdon on Aug 7, 2017 18:27:41 GMT
Lol, "Keeper of the Chains".
My wife is quite the skilled crafts(wo)man, and has even taught many art classes, but she doesn't have any desire to paint models with me either. But, hey, she painted your tattoos at least! Mine won't even do that!
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Post by knoffles on Oct 30, 2017 22:13:12 GMT
I finally 'finished' the original plastic wood elves. Have to say I didn't enjoy painting them at all, I was massively unmotivated so they are very much a that will do (more so than normal). It probably didn't help that I painted over the original paint job rather than strip them first. I also tried out a very liquid 15-20 year old wash on the flesh and not sure I'm happy with that (really all kinds of not happy with this batch). Never mind, next up 15 of the GW second plastic WE sculpts.
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